None of that rescues your pontification from eye rolls.

See, you could make a useful comment and share your experience, characterizing the degree to which Emily Blunt’s performance of that character was original versus a rote expression of what was in the source material.

Wow, you’re really having trouble with this.

The character, its role in the narrative, and Emily Blunt’s performance together make the movie.

That’s a knife.

Ctrl. Die. Delete.

Tom Cruise knows how to make a big damn hero movie.

If you’re so smart, why did you go see it at all?

Glad you like the source material, but Emily Blunt makes the movie. If the source material doesn’t have that aspect, I’m not interested.

I think Tom and Doug are both smart enough to know that she’s who people want to see.

Tomorrow Never Comes.

I’m sure by now he’s expert at reading people and knowing who’s susceptible and who’s not.

Live. Die. Reboot.

Dealers have a financial incentive to serve you independent of the manufacturer, and leverage against manufacturers that you don’t.

Retail ain’t commercial. Computers ain’t cars. Computers still sell in huge numbers at retail and online from inventory. When they ship to individual consumers they do so by parcel service. The level of model-specific engineering isn’t the same; nor is the level of regulation. Unit cost and physical size don’t exactly…

You should read about the history of the PC market, because you’re clearly unfamiliar with it and how utterly inapplicable it is to the modern automobile business.

Boeing doesn’t sell millions of new planes per year to individuals using styling as product differentiation.

Based on their inability to effectively manage straightforward communications, I don’t think we need to worry just yet.

Well, you know what they say — fast, cheap, good, pick any two.

You want to make the imbalance of power between consumers and a huge industry whose barriers to entry only get higher and which continues to consolidate into fewer larger players worse?